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🗓️ 25 April 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Stella Assange is the wife of Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, a whistle-blowing platform that publishes classified material provided by anonymous sources. He is currently being held in Belmarsh Prison pending extradition to the US, where he is wanted for 18 criminal charges related to obtaining and publishing classified information. Stella is leading a campaign to fight his extradition, which has been depicted in a new documentary, Ithaka. She tells Nuala why she thinks Julian should be released, how they first met and the impact of the campaign on their two young children. Award-winning comedian Zoe Lyons tells Nuala about her ‘monumental' midlife crisis. It involved buying a sports car, having a brief marital separation and running a 100k ultra marathon… badly. Along the way, her hair started to fall out. Thankfully, Zoe has been able to explore the funny side and create her stand-up show Bald Ambition. Nurses are set to be given body-worn cameras in a crackdown on hospital sexual assaults under new government plans. A recent report published by The Women’s Rights Network revealed that thousands of sex attacks have been reported in hospitals across England and Wales in the past 4 years. Nuala is joined by Heather Binning, Founder of The Women’s Rights Network, and Catriona Rubens, a solicitor at human rights law firm Leigh Day. Dr Lil Stevens recently found out that her grandfather, Captain Leicester Stevens, had taken part in an expedition to find a dinosaur in the rainforests of the Congo known as the Congo 'thunder lizard' (later dismissed as a hoax) following World War 1. Lil, who works at a palaeontologist, has dedicated her career to studying fossils and was amazed to discover the family connection.
Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Lucinda Montefiore
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, this is Nulam Agavern and you're listening to the Woman's Hour podcast. |
| 0:10.7 | Well we have Stella Asange, the lawyer and now wife of Wikileaks founder Julian Asange |
| 0:15.6 | in just a moment. |
| 0:17.0 | I found it really interesting to hear her story, maybe you will too. |
| 0:21.0 | Also this hour will take a look at a report. |
| 0:23.0 | Now this details reports of rape and sexual assault in hospitals in England and Wales. |
| 0:29.0 | The health secretary met with NHS leaders to discuss the findings and one of the initiatives |
| 0:34.2 | proposed includes nurses to wear body cameras so we're going to talk about all of that. |
| 0:40.2 | The comedian Zoe Lines should be with us as well. |
| 0:42.8 | I want to talk to her and to you about what she calls her monumental midlife crisis. |
| 0:48.9 | She broke up with her wife, bought a fast car, also distressingly lost her hair but I'm |
| 0:54.2 | wondering did you take any drastic action? |
| 0:57.8 | When you reached what you see as midlife might be different for some of us. |
| 1:03.0 | And did you have a midlife crisis? |
| 1:05.1 | Was there a nose ring? |
| 1:06.1 | A tattoo? |
| 1:07.1 | Maybe coloring your hair? |
| 1:08.3 | Moving countries? |
| 1:09.3 | Quitting your job? |
| 1:10.3 | I don't know but I want to hear it all. |
| 1:11.7 | You can text the program. |
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